Claw bottle carrier, holder, or hanger.



'No. 655,722. Patented Aug. l4, I900.

0.. A. LAW.

' CLAW BOTTLE BARRIER, HOLDER, 0R HANGER. (Application mm m 18, 1900. (No Model.)

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CARRIE A. LAW, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLAW BOTTLE CARRIER, HOLDER, on HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,722, dated August 14, 1900.

Application filed May 18, 1900. Serial Noi 17,084. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARRIE A. LAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Claw Bottle Carrier, Holder, or Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

Theobject of the present invention is to provide an economical, neat, attractive, and efficient bottle carrier, holder, or hanger which may be made of a single piece of spring-wire and which is readily applied and removed and which firmly holds the bottle by means of claws.

To this end the invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the upper portion of a bottle with the carrier, holder, or hanger applied. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the carrier, holder, or hanger.

In the drawings, a is a bottle, and b is the car rier, holder, or hanger, which, as shown, con sists of one piece of spring-wire bent and doubled into the form of a hook I), and then it diverges as a single Wire and is turned down ward and upward in semicircular form to form one-half the carrier and provided with claws 6 which are adapted to fit snugly around the neck of the bottle and clasp the same. Opposite the hook I) this single Wire joins the other single wire, which has been simultaneously bent and passed around the other half of the circle, and the two are again bent and doubled and twisted to form a handle or hanger, which ends in a loop b In the instance described the loop is the bi ght of the single wire. As shown in the drawings, the claws are composed of inward and outward extensions arranged alternately, as b and b the claws b being somewhat shorter than 19 In use the carrier, holder, or hanger is slipped down over the neck of the bottle and the inward extensions clasp the neck of the bottle underneath the part a and the outward extensions 19 fit snugly around the circumference of the part Ct. This permits of 55 the bottle being hung up, handled, and carried from place to place conveniently and permits of the carrier being readily applied and removed. It is designed for milk-bottles, druggistssupp1y-bottles,&c., and among the many advantages to be derived may be noted simpleness in construction, cheapness ofmanufacture, lightness and durability, and that it may be readily applied and removed.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modifications may be made in details without departing from the spirit thereof. Hence I do not limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement of partsdmreinabove set forth, and illustrated in the drawings; but,

Having'thus described the nature and objects of the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bottle carrier, holder or hanger comprising a continuous piece of spring-wire doubled and twisted to form a hook and diverging from the hook as single Wires each semicircularly bent to form a carrier and also bent into the shape of claws extending inwardly and outwardly and terminating in a doubled portion twisted to form a handle or hanger ending in a loop for said hook,'substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name. f CARRIE A. LAW. In presence of-- ROBERT KLEE, O. W. BRIGGS. 

